East and West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science [Paperback]

S. Grof (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Robert Briggs Assoc; First Edition edition (February 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931191009
• ISBN-13: 978-0931191008
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,932,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Are We There Yet?, March 11, 2000

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This review is from: East and West: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science (Paperback)

Famed LSD Psychotherapist Stanislav Grof gives this lecture in written form in 1983 at the Seventh International Transpersonal Conference in Bombay, India. Although only 25 pages long, Grof gives a concise, yet dense history of Western Science. Explaining the cross-overs into other branches of study, for instance Freud's theories are based on Newtonian-Cartesian physics, in which people have drives that have cause and effect. Well "written," and for the most part for the layman, however, there are some prerequisites of knowledge in order to grasp it in its entirety. This book, for me, gave me a great and new understanding of what Einsteins theory of relativity means to our culture: that our way of thinking as a culture changes from A to B, to the instantaneous now A and B. If there were to be any arguments made, it would not be on this lecture in partiular, but many who writes about Western science "against" Eastern wisdom, is that it always seems that the West is trying to get to the East and not vice verse, which, really the idea they begin with is to meet in the middle. A good read overall, and highly reccomended. A good book to read with this is Alan Watt's "The Book."